Hasp seal-lock.



E. TYDEN.

HASP SEAL LOCK.

APPLIGATION FILED MAR. 11, 191s.

Patented Dec. 2, 1913.

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EMIL TYDEN, `0F HASTINGS, MICHIGAN.

HASP SEAL-LOCK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 2, 1913.

Application filed March 11, 1913. Serial No. 753,477.

To all whom t may concern: I

Be it known that I, EMIL TYDEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hastings, in the county of Barry and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hasp Seal-Locks, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

The purpose of this invention 1s to provide an improved construction of a lock to be used on hampers, baskets and the like, being in a general character a hasp lock having a sealing device which is adapted to serve as a bolt for securing the lock after the seal is broken.

It consists in the elements and features of construction shown and described, as indicated in the claims.

In the drawings :Figure l is a front elevation of part of auhamper having a lock embodying this invention. Fig. 2 is a section at line 2-2 on Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a detail section at line 3-3 on Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a plan view of a seal in one of the forms described. Fig. 5 is a section at line 5 5 on Fig. t. Fig. .G is a detail elevation of a locking device employing a modied form of seal. Fig. 7 is a plan view of a seal of said modified form.

The drawings show a hamper comprising a body, 1, and cover, 2, secured by a hasp and staple, the staple, 3, being formed upon a plate, 4, mounted upon the front side of the hamper, and the hasp being the customary hinged form having the iiXed leaf, 5, riveted to the upper side of the cover, and the swinging or staple-engaging member, 6, hinged to the forward edge of said fixed member, 5, for swinging down overthe staple. The hasp member, 6, which will be hereinafter referred to as the hasp, has the slot, 7 for engaging the staple; and at its lateral edges, inwardly facing grooves, 8-S, which form a slide-way for guiding the seal bolt, hereinafter described, into and out of engagement with the staple for locking. The said grooves, 8 8, are preferably formed by folding over inward the lateral marginal portions of the plate of which the hasp, 6, is formed, and for a purpose which will be hereinafter explained, the said marginal portions thus folded over are folded up or outward, that is, so as to form flanges, 8, which stand at right-angles to the plane of the plate at the inner edges of said lateral grooves.

9 is a seal bolt which is a flat plate mounted for sliding in the grooves, 8-8, and having its lower end formed as a tongue, l0, for thrusting through the staple to secure the hasp, the shoulders, ll-l1, which result from forming the tongue narrower than the entire width of the seal bolt, 9, being adapted to stop against the staple at the limit of the locking movement of said seal bolt. The metal of the seal bolt, 9, is of such character,

can be readily bent out of its normal plane after it is thrust through the staple so as to engage below the staple and prevent the withdrawal of the seal bolt. The tongue made long enough so that it can not only be thus bent out upwardly so as to extend below the cross bar of the staple, but may also be reiieXed in front of said cross bar so as to stand in front of the body of the seal bolt above the staple. The tongue, while adapted to be thus bent out of its normal plane without breaking, is adapted to break upon being bent or straightened back into its normal plane, as will be necessary in order to withdraw it from the staple. To insure its breaking upon being thus straightened back into withdrawable position, it is weakened at the point at which the breaking is desired, by an aperture, 12, intermediate the width of the tongue at a position at which the lower edge of the staple will cross it at its locked position.

in view of its thickness, that the tongue, l0,

Vhen the hamper is closed and locked by the engagement of the hasp with the staple, and the seal bolt thrust down to engagement with the staple, the shipper will bend up the tongue as described so as to engage the staple. Vhen the hamper is to be opened by an authorized person, such person will straighten the tongue back to its normal plane, causing it to break at a point below the staple, whereupon the seal bolt can be withdrawn and the hamper opened. The seal bolt, however, remains in the hasp and is adapted to serve as an ordinary bolt for securing the cover at closed position upon return of the hamper empty, or so long as it is not desired to again seal it; but when the hamper is to be again sealed, the broken seal bolt will be drawn out and a new seal bolt substituted. n order that the seal bolt may be at all times safely retained in the hasp and perform the function of a bolt, when it is not being used for sealing, provision is made for its rictional retention in its slide-bearings in the hasp. For this purpose, a convenient expedient consists in forming two slits, 13, 13, in each of the lateral edges of the seal bolt extending transversely to said edges and slightly deflecting, all in the same direction from the normal plane, the marginal portions, 14, ot the seal bolt between said slits and the ends of said lateral edges of the bolt, or similarly deilecting from the normal plane the intermediate marginal portions, 5, 15. In the drawings, both the intermediate portions, 15, and the extreme portions, 14, are slightly deflected but in opposite directions from the normal plane. The slight elasticity of the tongues into which the Inarginal portions of the seal are thus subdivided, serve to ei'ect the necessary rictional engagement of the seal bolt with the vsurfaces of the grooves in which it slides.

In Fig. 6 there is shown a modified form of the hasp and seal bolt for effecting the same result, that is, adapt the seal bolt to be secured by bending a tongue thereof into engagement with one of the other portions of the device at the locking position, so that upon straightening such tongue back into its normal plane, it will break olf for permitting the withdrawal of the said bolt. In this form the seal bolt, 18, has a short tongue, 19, for engaging the hasp, and has struck out from the portion intermediate its ends, two tongues, 20-20, which normally projecting off from the plane of the bolt, stand close alongside the flanges, 8, of the hasp. These flanges have notches, 21-21, which are so positioned as to register with the tongues, 20-20, at the locked position of the bolt, and at its position, the tongues being bent outward, engage these notches and prevent. the withdrawal of the bolt from locked position until the tongues are again bent back to their normal position which causes them to break oft'.

1. In a hasp lock, in combination with a staple; a hasp having an aperture for engaging the staple and means for guiding a slide bolt to engage the staple; a slide bolt mounted in the hasp for sliding into and out of such engagement with the staple, the bolt and hasp being relatively formed for yielding frictional retention of the bolt at any position in its range of sliding on the hasp.

2. In a hasp lock, in combination with a staple; a hasp having an aperture for engaging the staple, and means for guiding a slide bolt to engage the staple; a slide boltmounted on the hasp for sliding into and out oit' engagement with the staple, said slide bolt having a tongue which is adapted to be easily bent out of its normal plane into a position for interlocking with one or the other parts of the lock against unlocking movement of the bolt, one of the other parts of the lock being formed and positioned for such engagement with the bent tongue, said tongue being accessible for so bending it at the locked position of the bolt, and being adapted to break when returned to its normal plane. Y

3. In a hasp lock, in combination with a staple; a hasp having an aperture for engaging the staple and means for engaging a slide bolt to engage the staple; a slide bolt mounted on the hasp for sliding into and out of such engagement with the staple, the bolt terminal which thus engages the staple being adapted to be easily bent out of its normal plane to extend across one of the bars of the staple at locked position, and being adapted to break when bent back into a plane for withdrawing from the staple.

4. In a hasp lock, in combination with a staple, a hasp having an aperture for engaging the staple, and means for guiding a sliding bolt in the hasp to engage the staple; a slide bolt mounted in the hasp for sliding into and out of engagement with the staple, said slide bolt being formed of metal plate having in its edges which are engaged for sliding transverse slits, and having the metal at one side of each slit deflected out oi' the plane of the plate.

5. In a hasp lock, in combination with a staple, a hasp having an aperture for engaging the staple and having its lateral edges inturned to form lips, and slide-ways between the lips and the body; a slide bolt to engage the staple made of metal plate, and having its edges engaged for sliding in said slide-ways, said edges having each two slits at a distance apart in the length of the of February, 1913.

EMIL TYDEN.

Witnesses:

EDNA M. MACINTOSH, LUCY I. STONE.

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